The natural world isn’t beholden to our lines of logic. As the question (and popular meme) “If not friend, why friend-shaped?” reminds us, plants and animals don’t always act—or taste, for that matter ...

This has not been a kind year to garden in the Southeast. For all intents and purposes, the rain halted in mid-July and ruthlessly teased us with raindrops separated by yardsticks until late October.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. American beautyberry has colorful berries that last long into winter and are ...

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Fall is the time to pick Florida's native beautyberries (Callicarpa Americana) now growing on shrubs in clusters along roadsides, in pineland and hammock forests, or in parks. Beautyberries are ...

Last year's drought killed a lot of trees on Tim and Ginger Dyring's 25 wooded acres in Spring and exposed hundreds of native beautyberry shrubs to more sun. Then came welcomed rain. Now the Dyrings ...

Winter is the best time to prune shrubs that bloom on new wood to produce the most berries. If it's too cold to work outside, ...

SOMEONE ONCE SAID, “Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.” They very well might have been thinking of beautyberry. For most of the year, beautyberry is a bit of a wallflower (wall shrub?).

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - It’s the last Flower Friday of the summer and there is no better way to ring in the fall season than by learning about a plant that thrives in it!

The name says it all. The thing about beautyberry -- genus Callicarpa - - is its berries. And they are beautiful. Though these shrubs produce tiny pinkish-white flowers on low, arching branches in ...

Q. We planted a beautyberry bush on the southwest corner of our house several years ago. Now about 6 feet high and 5 feet wide, it blooms profusely but has yet to produce berries. It does not appear ...

Beautyberry bushes certainly live up to their name, thanks to their striking clusters of purple or white berries throughout fall and winter. The shrubs are low maintenance, though regular pruning will ...